{"id":149318,"date":"2023-06-26T12:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T16:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/architecture\/?page_id=149318"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:06:56","slug":"mission-and-vision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/architecture\/mission-and-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission and Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-96a6445d alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-88e8a51c\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-image.kb-image149318_eb8008-42:not(.kb-specificity-added):not(.kb-extra-specificity-added){margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;}.kb-image149318_eb8008-42:not(.kb-image-is-ratio-size) .kb-img, .kb-image149318_eb8008-42.kb-image-is-ratio-size{padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.kb-image149318_eb8008-42 .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}.kb-image149318_eb8008-42 img.kb-img, .kb-image149318_eb8008-42 .kb-img img{object-position:37% 72%;}<\/style>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image149318_eb8008-42 alignwide size-large kb-filter-grayscale kb-image-is-ratio-size\"><div class=\"kb-is-ratio-image kb-image-ratio-land32\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/2018-07-13_DCP-edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"Image of College of Design, Construction and Planning Atrium\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-150658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/2018-07-13_DCP-edited-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/2018-07-13_DCP-edited-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/2018-07-13_DCP-edited-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/2018-07-13_DCP-edited-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/2018-07-13_DCP-edited-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-44287c76\">\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The UF School of Architecture cultivates design as a synthesis of seeing, thinking, and making.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Design is an iterative process that gathers issues of space, form, historical precedent, ecology, structure, urbanity, landscape, and materials toward innovative and enriching architecture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">As the third largest state population in the US and the fastest growing as of 2023, Florida faces both the challenges and opportunities that come with rapid and sustained growth. Protecting sensitive natural ecologies, nurturing quality tourism, responding to an increasingly humid and hot climate, enhancing urban centers, reducing sprawling suburbs, protecting dwindling agriculture, transforming transportation infrastructure, and developing strategies of resilience to support inhabiting coastal communities under threat from periodic hurricanes and persistent sea level rise. These issues raise questions of design. How will we design for the future?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">The School of Architecture is uniquely positioned to respond to these issues by deploying studio-based design and scenario modeling methodologies in collaboration with emerging experts in engineering, ecology, business, anthropology, artificial intelligence, energy, fine arts, medicine, and construction. Within the University of Florida, the State\u2019s flagship research institution, a trove of researchers and faculty, dedicated to academic excellence and interdisciplinary collaboration, are focused on the demands of changing Florida culture. The SoA is one of seven programs associated within the College of Design, Construction and Planning \u2014 Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning, Preservation, Sustainability and the Built Environment, Interior Design, and Building Construction. SoA faculty and students, working independently and collaboratively across disciplines through teaching, research and practice, have garnered international, national, state and local design awards, publish regularly, and have secured national, state and local grant funding for research-based service-learning and design projects. This body of work examines theoretical, poetic, and practical questions facing humanity and proposes responses, through the discipline of design, that are viable, innovative, and transformative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Our <strong>undergraduate<\/strong> programs endeavor to provide students with the foundational knowledge \u2013 within a rigorous studio-focused 4-year program \u2013 that will nurture synthetic thinking and design skills by operating in varied modes of making: sketching, drawing, collage, scale modeling, computer modeling, and full-scale construction. Our supporting coursework in areas of structures, environmental systems, building materials, history, and theory are organized to support synthetic design within the design studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">The <strong>graduate<\/strong> program extends fundamentals through a research-based design approach that explores contemporary critical issues of a change \u2014 climate, energy, infrastructure, building technology, artificial intelligence, transportation, urban form, and architectural pedagogy. At the graduate level, students develop self-directed interests while engaging design as a collaborative and integrative methodology operates in both real and speculative projects. This work is done in coordinated studios, grant funded projects, seminars, workshops and each student\u2019s individual thesis project. Often this work is coordinated with our research centers in the SoA and the College of Design Construction and Planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\"><strong>Doctoral<\/strong> candidates within our program focus on directed research into interests they bring. The SoA has a strong doctoral faculty who work individually with candidates to develop their course of study and craft a dissertation methodology that can produce published work, establish them as emerging experts, and prepare them for the rigors and opportunities of an academic career in the discipline of architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UF School of Architecture cultivates design as a synthesis of seeing, thinking, and making. Design is an iterative process that gathers issues of space, form, historical precedent, ecology, structure, urbanity, landscape, and materials toward innovative and enriching architecture. 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